Chanctonbury Ring, W Sussex - AR Quinton art postcard Salmon (2035)

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• Picture / Image:  Chantonbury [actually Chanctonbury] Ring - near Worthing, West Sussex - art by A.R. Quinton
• Publisher:  J Salmon (2035)
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Chanctonbury Ring (known as Chanklebury in Sussex dialect)^[1] is a hill fort based ring of trees atop Chanctonbury Hill on the South Downs, on the border of the civil parishes of Washington and Wiston in the English county of West Sussex. A ridgeway, now part of the South Downs Way, runs along the hill. Bertrand Russell once remarked that ""any view that includes Chanctonbury Ring is a good view"".

A trig point is located about 400 metres (440 yd) west of the Ring, recorded by the Ordnance Survey as 238 metres (781 ft) above sea level. Although this was originally recorded as the top of Chanctonbury Hill and thus the Marilyn summit, recent measurements suggest that the area of the Ring is higher, about 242 metres (794 ft) above sea level.

Chanctonbury Ring was originally a small hill fort in a commanding position looking across the weald to the north. Pottery found and carbon dating on an animal bone suggest the fort was built in the early Iron Age, in the 6th to 5th centuries BC, but some Bronze Age pottery has also been found on the site.

After the abandonment of the hill fort, the ring was used by the Romans as a religious site (possibly due to similar Iron Age religious activity there). Two temples were erected, although it is not clear whether they stood at the same time or whether one succeeded the other. One Roman temple was potentially classical in form and consisted of a polygon of perhaps eleven sides. A second Romano-Celtic Temple with towered central sanctuary and outer ambulatory, certainly dated from the later Roman period.^[2]

The fame of the Ring, however, is due not to the hill fort but to the beech trees, which were planted in 1760 by Charles Goring within the earth bank of the fort,^[3] which is still prominent today. The trees became a famous landmark, very thickly wooded; however, the Great Storm of 1987 destroyed most of the trees and the replanted trees are only now beginning to restore the ring to its former glory.

Local legend has it that Chanctonbury Ring was created by the Devil and that he can be summoned by running around the clump of trees seven times anti-clockwise. When he appears he will offer you a bowl of soup in exchange for your soul. Frank R. Williams, writing in the Sussex Notes and Queries in 1944, said that the story derives from ancient pagan worship which would include a ritual dance ceremony followed by a sacrificial feast. The association with Chanctonbury derives from an earlier pagan site on the land.^[4]

The Ring is also rumoured to increase fertility in women who sleep underneath the trees for one night.^[5]

type=printed

city/ region=worthing

period=inter-war (1918-39)

publisher=j salmon

postage condition=unposted

number of items=single

size=standard (140x89 mm)